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clara + period clothing

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The great thing about twelve and Clara is that they’ve broken up more than all the other doctor/companion pairs combined. Every other episode they’re like “this isn’t working actually we’re so over” and then seconds later they’re like “we’re so back actually”

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WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING (1995) dir. Jon Turteltaub

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Selfie (2014) - Karen Gillan as Eliza Dooley had the best fashion

YouTube version

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Sophia Bush as Beth McIntyre in John Tucker Must Die (2006)

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Accidentally fallen in love 

Selfie (2014) - Karen Gillan & John Cho

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BROOKLYN NINE NINE (2013-2021) 1.16, "The Party"

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I think a lot of the reason that people struggled to understand Katniss’s feelings for Peeta is that in a series whose central plot is focused on survival that has a protagonist whose main focus is survival it’s easy to chalk up the grand gestures of becoming the Mockingjay and giving up her life for him at the Quell as her being romantic. But because she’s also a very compassionate character it’s easy to say she would do the same for Prim, Gale, or Haymitch so what makes Peeta so special.

However thematically the series focuses a lot on the dichotomy of living and surviving. Multiple times it’s mentioned how there are worse things than death for a person. That just surviving isn’t always the point. And that’s the key to showing how Katniss put Peeta at a different level than everyone else through the books. Slowly she let herself be more and more vulnerable with him in a way nobody else got.

- she admits that sleeping with him is a luxury because he makes her feel safe for the first time since her father died

- the girl who mentions not being used to being touched puts Peeta as the only person outside of her family who she’s comfortable with touching her. And it’s not even resignation, he’s the only person whose touch we see her craving multiple times when she wants to sleep with him or have his arms around her.

- the few times Katniss is shown to be happily relaxing is with Peeta when they have their picnic before the Quell and when they work on the plant book.

- the ultimate admission of vulnerability by telling Peeta she needs him on the beach.

- opening herself up to sexual attraction by enjoying those hungry kisses with him. To the point she’s looking forward to more of them when she thinks they’re going to have a happy reunion.

- being dependent on him enough to be broken when he’s taken to the Capitol. And then to be suicidal when an alive Peeta comes back who she can’t enjoy their previously warm relationship with.

- “I don’t know why his voice reaches me when no one else’s can”. Do you know how much trust you need to have for a person for them to influence you this much?

- and above all Katniss’s most romantic gesture is choosing to live for Peeta. When she’s shipped back to D12 she mentions how there is nobody stopping her from killing herself but something is stopping her. And then after Peeta returns she showers, goes hunting, calls her mom. She actively chooses to try and heal and recover.

That’s the true signs of love Katniss Everdeen shows Peeta Mellark, she chooses him above everyone else to be the one person who she lets herself be vulnerable with to the point that it affects how she chooses to live beyond surviving

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Doctor Who | 4.08 Silence in the Library

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Ann Carrington, inspired by traditional French bobbin lace

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TOBY SCHMITZ as CAPTAIN JACK RACKHAM BLACK SAILS XXVI

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i hate this weird trend in fandom where subtext is seen as a Bad Thing and is only done if the creators are too cowardly to commit to showing something. i hate to break it to you but nuance and layers are what make stories interesting, if you have no subtext then you have a very flat story

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❛I'd be the last shred of truth in the lost myth of true love [...] Imagine being loved by me.❜ – Hozier, Talk.

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The Night, the Porch

by Mark Strand

To stare at nothing is to learn by heart What all of us will be swept into, and baring oneself To the wind is feeling the ungraspable somewhere close by. Trees can sway or be still. Day or night can be what they wish. What we desire, more than a season or weather, is the comfort Of being strangers, at least to ourselves. This is the crux Of the matter, which is why even now we seem to be waiting For something whose appearance would be its vanishing — The sound, say, of a few leaves falling, or just one leaf, Or less. There is no end to what we can learn. The book out there Tells us as much, and was never written with us in mind.

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THE HUNGER GAMES APPRECATION WEEK → day 3: favourite mentor/mentee relationship

"Several sets of arms would embrace me. But in the end, the only person I truly want to comfort me is Haymitch, because he loves Peeta, too. I reach out for him and say something like his name and he's there, holding me and patting my back. 'It's okay. It'll be okay, sweetheart.' He sits me on a length of broken marble pillar and keeps an arm around me while I sob."

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I will stay, and I will wait - a day, a month, a year, forever - in the hopes that you will understand why I did what I did. JOHN SILVER & MADI, BLACK SAILS

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I received a BroomSlayer 3000 for Christmas!

Behind its jovial mien lies a cold-blooded killer. It's got merciless jaws to clamp onto the plant and a heavy pivoting handle to extract the roots.

I think Father Christmas saw the Christmas Broom held hostage in my living room, under which he was supposed to leave presents, and realised I had reached a breaking point. Last winter I removed all the invasive shrubs in the pasture. I cut everything! Down to the tiniest baby broomlets! And one year later the place looks like this

It's luxuriant. It's humiliating. It's a boundless undulating broom prairie. Clearly as far as they're concerned, I just gave them a nice trim which allowed them to grow back even healthier. So I needed to try something more violent. Get to the root of the problem. (Sorry.)

(I noticed that the spot of last year's broom bonfire is still completely broom-free, but I have not yet reached the point where I set fire to the entire pasture and hope for the best)

Now let me demonstr

—wait a minute.

Is Pampe eating broom??

Ah, no. She's eating pointless, flavourless, leafless brambles which she wouldn't look at twice if they weren't right next to the plants I'd like her to eat, thus emphasising how much she is not eating these.

For a second here I thought you were being helpful.

I saw Poldine eating brambles instead of broom as well. Bad Poldine!

Poldine recovered from this heartbreak after I let her sniff the snow boots I got for Christmas. Just like cats (her idols) she enjoys inspecting new things. (She also enjoys pulling on the laces delicately with her lips to untie them. This game never gets old, if you're a mischievous young llama.)

Anyway. The BroomSlayer 3000 works!! But it's hard work. I did not think it was going to be hard work, because the website made it look so easy.

I wanted to take a little video of me uprooting my enemies but then I thought an illustration would better convey my emotional state—there was a demo video on the gardening website which sells the BroomSlayer and it was the loveliest most bucolic scene, featuring a polite tree who basically picked up its skirts and scampered away with a contrite gasp the minute it realised its presence was unwanted. I really thought uprooting things was going to be a picnic, because I am not immune to propaganda.

To be fair to the gardening website, maybe it's just broom. With that said, it's incredibly satisfying to pull on the handle and hear the delightful sskkrrhh sound of roots being violently torn out of the ground. It's an exhausting whole-body workout but eventuaIly I will grow stronger than broom. I made a murderous Veni Vidi Vici playlist to put myself in the right mood and with this musical support and my new antibroom weapon I will prevail.